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Mayoral write-in could rewrite history
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| Last Edited | User 215 Oct 06, 2004 03:31pm |
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| News Date | Wednesday, October 6, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ellis Ivory — the new write-in candidate for Salt Lake County mayor — could take heart knowing that dozens of Utah write-in candidates have won in recent years. What may give him heartburn, though, is that none of them prevailed in high-profile races.
Ellis Ivory and Merrill Cook at the Salt Lake County Republican Party's Executive committee meets to discuss supporting Mayor Workman despite pending criminal
Tom Smart, Deseret Morning News
Recent write-in winners include a couple of small-county sheriffs (including one blocked from taking office because he was not a certified law officer), city and town council members, local school board members and at least one small-town mayor — who didn't even know his neighbors were writing in his name until he was told he had won.
The most votes that any of those write-in winners achieved in the past 10 years was 694 (won by Mike Adams in an Iron County School Board race in 1996), according to a search of Deseret Morning News archives.
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